I watched some of the coverage of the terror attacks in Mumbai, India over the last several days.  As is always the case in situations like this, I am appalled by the brutality that humans are able to inflict on other humans.  For as long as I live, I will never understand it. ...

The Obama Administration is starting to look like the “team of rivals” that the President-elect talked about during the campaign.  “Team of rivals” is a reference to the book of the same name by Doris Kearns Goodwin in which the administration of Lincoln is...

No matter how America voted, history would have been made. On November 4, 2008, the United States elected the first African-American president in Barack Obama. All Americans should be proud of this historical moment in American history. President-Elect Obama won a landslide victory...

Yes, I know some people were worried about election fraud, voter fraud, votes not counting, and so on; but let us assume that nothing criminal occurs.  The act of voting takes every voter from all walks of life—Democrat, Republican, Independent, White, African-American, Hispanic,...

One difference I have noticed between the McCain and Obama campaigns is where they campaign and what attitudes they have towards the locales.  Lately, both campaigns have spent a large amount of time in battleground states like Florida and Ohio, but Senator Obama has also spent time...

A disturbing trend has emerged in the Republican Party in recent weeks.  Friday night on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, Minnesota Representative Michelle Bachmann called for inquiries against un-American members of Congress.  Who is defined as un-American?  According to...

Since President Bush’s re-election in 2004, the campaign for the next president kicked off.  We’ve had years to get to know the men who would be our 44th president of the United States even though several recent campaign ads question what we really know about these men.  So...